petition to return the glad block ability

[syntaxlies]

well now shields rarely block at all. and before if you didnt block you had the added bonus of the defense on the shield. now you dont have that anymore either.

I wouldn't mind an auto-block feature that works but what we have now is garbage.

[Stufoo]

and before if you didnt block you had the added bonus of the defense on the shield

Nope, that's not how it worked. That stat has been renamed to Block to clear up that confusion. Shields never gave flat defense.

Also as a level 50 GLA you still have 100% uptime on your shield boon rotation so you would never use guard anyway, they just need to raise the block rate which they've already said they are looking in to. I would like them to lower the recast on ambidexterity though.

This needs to be fixed(before 1.20)

Why? My GLA does great aside from strongholds, and that's not because MRD is a better tank, it's just that you don't need one in the strongholds outside of the Zahar'ak boss. People use MRD on Ifrit because again, it's not about MRD being a better tank it's because the tank is unnecessary. Ifrit is unblockable most of the time and is physically incapable of killing the person at the top of the hate list, so why take a dedicated tank? More time in the fight is more time for people to mess up.

As much as I enjoyed soloing Great Buffalo for 30 minutes as GLA I don't think we need 100% block back or that useless guard button taking up a slot on our bars. If you want to block more get sentinel's gauntlets and HQ shields, and make sure you use ambidexterity on a mitigation boon instead of outmaneuver.